Fountain brush



Patented Mar. 5, 1929.

UNITED STATES 1,704,224 PATENT OFFICE'.

JOHN J. SITKIN, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO FRANK KENNEDY, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

FOUNTAIN BRUSH.

Application led May 2,

This invention relates to brushes and more especially to fountain brushes.

` An object of the invention is to provide a simple, substantial and inexpensive brush whereby a paste or liquid of desired kind may be discharged at will from a chamber in the brush handle.

A further object is to provide a plunger means for effecting the discharge of the paste to the brush mass, and to provide means for preventing return of liquid to the chamber.

While the invention is here shown as embodied as a shaving brush it may be incorporated in various types for different uses.

Other objects, advantages and features of construction, combinationsv and details of means will be made manifest in the ensuing description of the herewith illustrative embodiment; it being understood thatv modifications, variations and adaptations may be resorted to within the scope, spirit and principle of the invention as it is more directly claimed hereinafter.

The drawing is a longtiudinal section of the device.

Bristles 2 of any desired character and forming the brush mass are set in a body 3 which is secured or screwed into a coupling i having a transverse partition 5. This' partition has a central, hollow hub 6 whose rim forms a seat for a rubber nipple 8. This nipple has a constricted, contracting orice and opens to allow a semi-liquid or liquid to flow into the brush 2 but closes suiciently tight to prevent inflow.

The nipple is provided with a flange which is held to the hub seat by a ferrule 9 screwed on the hub 6 and forming a cylinder open at its other end for admission' of substance with which the handle 10 is charged at a filling hole 11, closed by a cap 12.

In the cylinder 9 is a cup-piston 13 which on one stroke draws in aste and then, on the stroke toward the brus mass, discharges it into the brush to be applied thereby.

The piston 13 is fixed on a long rod 14 having a collar 15 on which reacts a s ring 16, whose o posite end seats on the cylinder,

automatica y forcing the piston on its suc- 1928. Serial No. A2749470.

tion stroke. The rod 14 asses through a packing sleeve 17 secured 1n a boss 18 of a concaved head 19 which is provided on the bottom end of the handle or barrel 10; the rim of the head being fiat so that the device may be stood up on its bottom end.

The collar 15 forms a leak proof closure when pressed by the spring 16 to seat on the inner end of the packing 17.

On the outer end of the rod 14 is a button 19 by which, under finger pressure, the plunger rod and its piston 13 may be forced on discharging stroke against the pressure of the spring 16.

It will be seen from the above that a desired quantity of liquid or paste, as the case may be, can be forced from the handlechamber into the nipple and thence to the brush bristles. The contractive nipple, being normally closed, admits of a thorough scalding of the whole device from time to time to keep the brush fresh and sanitary.

vl/Vhat is claimed is:

1. In a brush, a fountain handle, a coupling attached to the handle and having an inwardly directed hub part, a constricted nipple projecting into the hub having a flange seated on one end thereof and permitting flow only from the handle, a brush part attached to the coupling and receiving the discharge from the handle, a cylinder4 4 securing the nipple in place and having an operative piston, and a spring pressed push rod having a finger button on its outer endk and passing through the head of the handle to move the piston on discharge stroke.

2. In a brush, a fountain handle having a closed head end, a coupling removably attached to the opposite end of the handle and having an intermediate partition, a brushbody mounted in the outer end of the coupling, a discharge nipple mounted in the partition and openin from the handle, a cylinder attached to t e partition and clamping the nipple in lace, a piston in the cylinder having a push) rod extending through the handle head and having a finger button, a packing for the rod in the head, and a spring in the handle `for pressing the rod and piston outward.

JOHN J. SITKIN. 

